Sunshade attachment for vehicles.



PATENTED MAR. 17, I903.

G.. S. BOZARTH.

SUNSHADE ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1902.

F0 MODEL.

, ward running-gear.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

GEORGE S. BOZARTH, OF CRESTON, IOWA.

SUNSHADE ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

' S'PECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 722,803,.dated March 17, 1903.

v Application filed May 20, 1962. Serial No. 108,243. (No model.)

This invention relates to sunshade-supports,

adapted to be attached to a vehicle in a position to support the sunshade over the horses; and the invention consists in a support attached to the running-gear and extending over the tongue of the vehicle independently of the tongue and provided with an adjustable support for a sunshade.

Other novel features of the invention will be disclosed in the annexed description and be specified in the claim following.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure 1 represents a team of horses and a portion of a carriage with the sunshade-support attached thereto. elevation of the device attached to the for- Fig. 3 represents a .detail view showing the end of the shade-supporting rod, which is adapted for attachmentto the vehicle-axle.

The device maybe attached to any form of vehicle, generally those to which two or more horses are hitched, but may be applied with slight modifications to a vehicle having onlyone horse. It may be applied to carriages, wagons, or 'to the numerous horse-operated agricultural machines, grading-machines, or any other appliance employing horses as a draft means.

For the purpose of illustration the invention is shown applied to an ordinary carriage, 10 representing the body portion, 11 representing the forward axle connected to the body portion by the usual spring 12, and the axle provided with the usual wheels 13 13. The tongue is-indicated at 14 and will be attached in the usual manner to the forward axle. The horses are indicated at 15 15 in the usual position upon opposite sides of the tongue. i

The invention which is the subject of .the present application consists of a supportingrod 16, connected rigidly to the forward axle 11, preferably by clips 17 17, engaging a T- head 18 upon the vehicle end of the rod 16.

Fig. 2 is a detail side" This T-head, which may consist of a metallic plate suitably secured to the rear end of the supporting-rod, extends laterallyfrom the latter, as will be seen most clearly in Fig.3 of the drawings, and is adapted to lie flat against the front side of the forward axle 11, so as to be engaged by the clips 17 and 17, as will be clearly seen in said figure. By this construction the device is capable of being attached to the axle at any desired point thereof and to form a firm support for the sunshade. The rod 16 is curved upward and outward above the tongue 14 and will be spaced from the tongue 14 a sufficient distance to permit the latter free play beneath it and so as not to interfere with the free movement of the vehicle-tongue. A spring 19 will connect the supporting-rod 16 to the running-gear of the vehicle, preferably above the spring 12, when the device is employed upon spring-vehicles, but which will be attached to any suitable part of the running-gear or framework at a suitable distance above the rod 16 to support it yieldably and form an elastic brace for preventing the snapping of the rod 16, which is rigidly connected to the axle of the vehicle. The lower end of the spring 19 will preferably be detachably connected to the rod 16 by a hook 20, so that the spring may be easily detached. This forms a yielda'ble support between therod and the running-gear, so that the depression of the spring 12 or the lateral movement of the tongue 14 and the rotative movement of the axle upon its ring-bolt will not exert undue strains upon the rod 16 and cause it to snap. Adjustably disposed upon the outer end of the rod 16 is a sleeve 21, adapted to be adjustably connected to the rod, as by a set-screw 22, so that the sleeve may be adjusted longitudinally of the rod. Rising from preferably, to conform somewhat with the shade-supporting rod provided at its rear tongue of the vehicle to which it is attached end witha T-head engaging the front side of and will be of any suitable material, either i the forward axle, clips connecting said T-head I5 wood or metal, or partially of wood and parwith the axle, and a supporting-spring. 5 tiallyof metal,suitablybraced and supported. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as By this simple device ample protection from my own I have hereto affixed my signature in heat, snow, or rain is afiorded the team withthe presence of two witnesses. out adding materially to the weight of the vehicle and at a Very slight increase of expense. GEORGE BOZARTII' 10 Having thus described my invention, What Witnesses:

I claim is-- L. V. STRYKER,

The combination with a vehicle, of a sun- SCOTT ARMSTRONG. 

